The temperature on October 31, 1785 was about 8.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest by south. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.
Day of death December 1, 1792
The temperature on December 1, 1792 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
April 2 » The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
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